1st Edition
Propaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law From Speakers' Corner to War Crimes
Edited By Predrag Dojcinovic
Copyright 2012
336 Pages
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Routledge
336 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
314 Pages
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Routledge
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Propaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law addresses the emerging jurisprudence and international law concerning propaganda in war crimes investigations and trials. The role of propaganda in the perpetration of atrocities has emerged as a central theme in the war crimes trials in the past century. The Nuremburg trials initially, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former... Read more
PART 1: The indictable propaganda: a bottom-up perspective, NENAD FIS ER; 2. Word scene investigations: toward a cognitive linguistic approach to the criminal analysis of open source evidence in war crimes cases, PREDRAG DOJC INOVIC; 3. Propaganda as a crime under international humanitarian law:theories and strategies for prosecutors, Dan Saxon; PART 2: 4. The challenges of understanding Kinyarwanda key terms used to instigate the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, MATHIAS RUZINDANA; 5: Propaganda, hate speech and mass killings, ANTHONY OBERSCHALL; PART 3: Hitler's notorious Jew-baiter: the prosecution of Julius Streicher, MARGARET EASTWOOD; 7. Propaganda in the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, MICHAEL KEARNEY; 8: The ghost of causation in international speech crime cases, SUSAN BENESCH; 9: Crimes of atrocity, the problem of punishment and the situ of law, LAWRENCE DOUGLAS.
Biography
Predrag Dojčinović has worked as an editor of academic and non-academic journals, professional reviewer and lecturer. He has authored numerous articles and has edited several volumes on the cultural and political aspects of the 1991-99 series of armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Since 1998, Dojcinovic has been working in the linguistic, analytical and research section of the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
'Through the range of perspectives, this book provides lawyers with an important introduction to social science concepts and highlights how understanding the linguistic and cultural context is axiomatic for effective investigation and prosecution of hate speech and propaganda. The edited volume provides a full picture of the war crimes process from investigation, expert testimony to judgment, and is a welcome contribution to the field given the central role propaganda plays in many war crimes trials.' - Keina Yoshida, London School of Economics, UK for Journal of International Criminal Justice (2013)
